Within neighborhood
100
th percentile
Very High
Neighborhood · Ranked #11,988 of 84,120 nationally
Alki Eviction Risk: Elevated , Seattle
Tract 53033009701 · King County, WA · pop 5,975 · neighborhood within 0.2 mi
53033009701 is a census tract in the Alki area of Seattle, WA. It scores 7.2/10 for landlords. It is home to 5,975 residents. The score leans hardest on local political climate at 9.5/10.
Risk score
7.2
Elevated
Confidence 100% · 1–10 scale
Household mix · 100 hh
Burdened renters 19%
Stable renters 28%
Owners 53%
Tract context
Occupied units2,736
Renter share46.7%
SVI overall0.40
Poverty rate4.1%
Median income$121,875
Percentile rank
Higher percentile = riskier than more peers.Within parent city
31
th percentile
Low
Within county
62
th percentile
Elevated
Within state
77
th percentile
High
Geographic context
Risk heat across Seattle and the region
Centroid at 47.5732, -122.4102 · click any tract to drill in
Why Alki scores 7.2
9 axes · 1 = landlord-friendlyLocal political climate
Inherited from Seattle
9.5
Regional political climate
2024 county presidential margin
7.6
State political climate
Washington legislature & governorship
6.0
Economic stress
4.1% poverty · this tract
1.0
Supply constraint
$1,944 rent vs county FMR
2.3
Rent control risk
Inherited from Seattle
9.0
Eviction process difficulty
State law sets the calendar
8.5
Tenant organizing strength
Inherited from Seattle
9.0
Housing court bias
Inherited from Seattle
8.5
How Alki compares
Risk score vs. parent city, county, state.CDC Social Vulnerability Index
SVI percentile: 40
CDC/ATSDR 2022. Higher = more vulnerable. National percentile across 84k tracts.
- 16%Socioeconomic
- 40%Household composition
- 38%Racial/ethnic minority
- 82%Housing & transportation
Historical context · 1930s redlining
HOLC grade: B: Still Desirable
This tract sits within an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s. Grade B meant middle-class areas with mortgage access. These designations suppressed minority homeownership for generations and remain a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings and rent burden.
- 0%Grade A
- 85%Grade B
- 12%Grade C
- 0%Grade D · redlined
Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), 1935-1940 HOLC residential security maps, aggregated to 2020 census tracts by area share. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Eviction filings
Court-record eviction history
Court-validated eviction filings collected from county clerks and consolidated by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Filing rate is filings per 100 renter households.1
Historic baseline (2000–2018)
- 81Total filings over 10 yrs
- 0.54%Avg annual filing rate
- 1.0%Peak (2006)
- 7Filings in 2013 (latest validated)
Filings dropped 36% over the past 10 months.
Comparable tracts
Census tracts with similar eviction risk
Within Alki. Closest by Eviction Risk Score.
Analysis
What drives eviction risk in Alki
On the high side, rent-regulation exposure reads 9/10. Running hot, tenant-organizing strength reads 9/10.
Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. Court records carry 81 eviction filings across 10 observed years.
Against King County at 44.1%, 40% of renters here are cost-burdened. Filings peaked in 2006 at 1.0% of renter households.
In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground B ("Still Desirable"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today. In a typical year about 0.5% of renter households face a filing.
On the national scale it lands near the 86th percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored. Social vulnerability reads 4.6/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks. Statewide the WA average is 5.9, so this tract runs 1.3 points hotter.
Of its three components the socioeconomic standing measure is the least pressured.
All figures here are ACS 5-year estimates for this tract, refreshed as the underlying releases land.
Frequently asked
About tract 53033009701
Q1
What is the eviction-risk score for census tract 53033009701?
Census tract 53033009701 in the Alki neighborhood scores 7.2/10 (Elevated tier). The Eviction Risk Score blends state law, county filing rates, parent-city politics, and tract-specific rent-to-income ratios + poverty signals.
Q2
What is the average rent in tract 53033009701?
Median gross rent is $1,944/month (ACS 5-year 2023, table B25064). 40% of renter households are cost-burdened.
Q3
What is the poverty rate in tract 53033009701?
4.1% of residents in tract 53033009701 live below the federal poverty line (ACS B17001, 2023). Population: 5,975.
Q4
How socially vulnerable is tract 53033009701?
CDC Social Vulnerability Index ranks this tract in the 40th percentile nationally. Sub-themes: socioeconomic 16th, household 40th, minority 38th, housing 82th.
Q5
Is tract 53033009701 considered part of Alki?
Yes. Per Census Bureau 2020 Block Assignment Files, the plurality of blocks in tract 53033009701 fall within Alki (neighborhood centroid within 0.2 miles, OSM data).
Q6
How many evictions are filed each year in tract 53033009701?
Princeton Eviction Lab recorded 81 eviction filings across 10 validated years in tract 53033009701 (2000-2018). The average annual filing rate is 0.54% of renter households, peaking at 1.0% in 2006. Source: Eviction Lab tract-validated 2024 release.
Q7
How does tract 53033009701 compare to Seattle overall?
Tract 53033009701 scores 7.2/10, lower than the parent city of Seattle at 7.9/10. City-scale signals (state law, local rent controls, court bias) are inherited from Seattle eviction risk; what makes this tract different are its tract-specific economic stress and supply-constraint sub-scores.
Q8
Was tract 53033009701 historically redlined?
Yes. This tract sits inside an area graded by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation in the 1930s, with a dominant grade of B. 0% of the tract's area was rated D ("Hazardous"), the redlined tier. HOLC redlining systematically denied mortgage credit to Black, immigrant, and working-class neighborhoods and remains a documented predictor of present-day eviction filings, rent burden, and homeownership gaps. Source: Mapping Inequality (americanpanorama.org), Robert K. Nelson et al.
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